Birth numbers at LBJ no longer a Riddle

“It is common knowledge that over 81 percent of the babies that are born in LBJ Hospital right here in Houston are born of women who are not here legally.”

The Chronicle asked the Harris County Hospital District, which runs LBJ, for its birth statistics. For the year that ended Feb. 28, 63.33 percent of deliveries at LBJ were babies born to undocumented immigrant women. That’s up from 59 percent the year before and down from 71 percent in the year that ended Feb. 28, 2008.

The district delivered the following figures for the past four fiscal years (You need to scroll horizontally to see the numbers:

* Total patient discharges refers to all inpatients, not just those giving birth. So at the bottom of the spreadsheet, we can see that 12.74 percent of all inpatients at Ben Taub and LBJ combined were undocumented immigrants who came to a hospital to give birth.

* These stats, of course, do not include outpatients.

* In Percent of Total Deliveries to Total Patient Discharges, we see that a bit more than one in five — 21.85 percent — of all inpatients in LBJ and Ben Taub were women who gave birth, regardless of immigration or citizenship status.

* A hospital spokeswoman says that the immigration status of the women is largely self-reported, and the staff records the information because it is relevant to how the hospital gets reimbursed for its services.

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So, ah-hum, are those who attempted to ridicule Rep. Riddle, like Secy. Napolitano, going to appologize to her. I think not, why, she is a Republican, of course. But, this points out two things, firstly, Mrs. Riddle knows the facts, and they do not, secondly, she wants to protect the U.S. CITIZEN, and they do NOT!

Most elected officials avoid this issue because it isn’t “politically correct”, but Debbie Riddle is taking a stand, and by the numbers shown above, she is 100% right. We have a serious illegal immigration problem in this country and it can’t be ignored.

If these statistics HORRIFY you as much as the should, then email the link of this article to everyone you know.

Another Chronicle Blogger got it right. This is the third time this great land has faced an immigration crisis. The first was with invasion of the Spanish Conquistadors against the southern and central native people. Next was the European whites against the northern native peoples.

Both groups were faced with a massive illegal immigration and illegal presence problem. They did nothing to take care of it, and lost their land, wealth, and culture in the process.

The nation formed from that previous chaos is facing the exact same crisis today. Either we get control of the problem or face the same result!!!

Somethings NOT right about those numbers. I know how they fixed them but I worked LABOR AND DELIVERY at LBJ hospital. (Told you folks I had a medical background too!) This was in 1991. Twenty years ago I KNOW FOR A FACT that there about 85%+ were non-English speaking hispanics.

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Now, when they classified them as citizens, documented and undocumented I guarantee they didn’t question ANYONE’s FAKE documentation so they went into the citizens.

There has been a huge migration of undocumented/illegal aliens into the suburbs of Houston in the last four years. You can see it in the school district demographics. These demographic reports will also show surburban school budgets getting slammed with cost of resources to provide ESL instruction. In fact, our Far NW Harris County district is now majority Hispanic. So it stands to reason that the slight drop in illegal births at urban hospitals are more than offset by the uptick in illegal births at suburban hospitals.

Chronicle Bloggers…show the stats for ALL hospitals in Harris County and then you will have the true picture. Riddle is not wrong to be concerned.

Why,,,Why if the problem is with illegal immigration doe you continue to highlight only the after the fact info. The job to be done is at the border and the job is not getting done. Do not target the people here…target the real problem. Once someone resides within our walls we have a moral obligation to guarantee their inalienable rights of life liberty and the pursuit of happiness regardless of citizenship. Get the job done like it should be or shut up.